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Women as public moralists in Britain : from the bluestockings to Virginia Woolf /
In nineteenth-century Britain, public debates about the nation's moral health and about men's and women's responsibility for it were shaped decisively by a tradition of female moralists. This book looks at the cultural criticism of eight of the most significant of these writers: Anna...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk :
The Boydell Press, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd,
2017
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| Colección: | Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Anna Jameson and the use of picturesque history
- Hannah Lawrance and the claims of women's history
- Margaret Oliphant and the lessons of eighteenth-century history
- Anna Jameson, cultural authority and public moralism
- Beautiful and useful arts in Hannah Lawrance's cultural criticism
- Marian Evans's cultural criticism in the context of women's public moralism
- Eliza Lynn Linton and feminism at the turn of the century
- Beatrice Hastings, Rebecca West and women's rights at the turn of the century
- Virginia Woolf's common reader and her social criticism
- The contexts of conclusions